Christopher Hitchens
Atheist, pioneer in atheism, polemicist, author of God Is Not Great, philosopher, columnist, essayist, orator, journalist, social critic, literary critic
Daniel "Dan" C. Dennett living
Philosopher, author of Consciousness Explained in 1991, atheist, pioneer in atheism
1942- (82)
philosophersmag.com
Henry David Thoreau
Philosopher aka Henry Thoreau, naturalist, Walden Woods, essayist, poet, transcendentalist writer, author of Walden: Life in the Woods, Civil Disobedience
1817-1862 (45)
plato.stanford.edu
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poet, essayist, philosopher, lecturer, abolitionist, activist for the transcendentalist movement
plato.stanford.edu
St. George Tucker
Slavery abolitionist, essayist, author of View of the Constitution
encyclopediavirginia.org
Walt Whitman
Poet, writer, author, journalist, essayist, wrote the poem "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" in 1865
1819-1892 (73)
whitmanarchive.org